pe out, root and branch, all capitalistic institutions
of present-day society. It is distinctly revolutionary, and in
scope and depth is vastly more tremendous than any revolution that
has ever occurred in the history of the world. It presents a new
spectacle to the astonished world,--that of an ORGANIZED,
INTERNATIONAL, REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. In the bourgeois mind a
class struggle is a terrible and hateful thing, and yet that is
precisely what socialism is,--a world-wide class struggle between
the propertyless workers and the propertied masters of workers. It
is the prime preachment of socialism that the struggle is a class
struggle. The working class, in the process of social evolution,
(in the very nature of things), is bound to revolt from the sway of
the capitalist class and to overthrow the capitalist class. This is
the menace of socialism, and in affirming it and in tallying myself
an adherent of it, I accept my own consequent unrespectability.